Archive for July, 2010

Now, since this design is being assembled in Illustrator as vector art , I can draw the face separately and then just drop it onto the design . So, it's back to the drawing board for another round of illustration . After a few sheets of

The combination of Adobe Illustrator and Phantasm CS with its vector Halftone tool allows for very rich graphic styles which keeps things completely dynamic. The tutorial movie is already lengthy and therefore does not go into some details …

Designing a character can apply to both personal and professional projects and the character can be a mascot that works in context of a multi-national brand or it can simply be inspired by a well-known character within pop culture. The later is usually referred to as “Fan Art.” This tutorial takes you through the entire creative process from thumbnail sketch to final art. (Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.) Keywords: Character, Mickey, Fan File Size: 18.2 MB

Many times an agency will mock up a design direction in order to get a client to sign off on it. Once they have it approved they’ll approach me with their rough idea and want me to flesh it out into it’s final form. This type of project usually means I’ll be leveraging both my design and illustration skills to pull it off. This project will take you through the entire creative process I used to pull off this illustrative logo design, from shooting my own photo reference material to refining my vector artwork with precision. (Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.) Keywords: Logo, Wood, Stylized File Size: 9.3 MB

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We acknowledge a lot of our subscribers are icon lovers and designers so now we compile some of the best and very useful Adobe Illustrator Video free tutorials to create vector icons. Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics …

We have all seen tutorials on creating grunge elements and grunge brushes in Photoshop, but I would like to show you that it is just as easy to apply grunge elements to your vector art work in Illustrator . This tutorial is …